yeah fine thanks except greg didn't have the pasty i wanted
and you know the woman who works there, yeah? the fat slow one? i think she's related to the fat slow woman with brain cancer who works in asda. you know the one, the one with the black eyes and the funny turban, talks at 0.1mph about having cancer in her brain. her.
(brb&#127828;&#3657;&#3657;&#3657;&#3657;&#3657;&#3657, Tue 6 Mar 2018, 18:08,
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did you read that part about when
in January, on a beach, about 180km from Perth, Australia, the now oldest message in a bottle was discovered?

The message in the bottle is not at all romantic. It simply states when and where the bottle was thrown overboard (32° 49’ South, 105° 25’ East), the name of the ship, its home port of Elsfleth near Bremen in Germany and details of its voyage. The finder was asked to write the details of where it was found on the back of the message and send it to the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg.

The German experiment of getting ships to drop messages in bottles into the sea lasted from 1864 to 1933. It's thought that the 662 messages recovered were about 9% of those thrown overboard. Before this latest discovery, the last one known to have been found was in 1934.
(Woodkovskycan use the Force, Tue 6 Mar 2018, 18:15,
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I like that they sent the message back to Germany, and put the empty gin bottle in a museum.
More museums should feature rubbish collected from beaches.
(monster munch- it's cheeseburgers, all the way down, Tue 6 Mar 2018, 18:46,
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that had better be short for shuttlecocks, mister!

(manolith- It must be some kind of cave bat, Tue 6 Mar 2018, 18:36,
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